Code Lyoko Evolution: Episode 1

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Episode 1: XANA 2.0


French title: XANA 2.0
Airdate: 19th of December (online), 5th of January (TV)
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Months have passed since the heroes destroyed XANA, the artificial intelligence that was threatening the world. It’s back to the normal routine at Kadic. The heroes are in the next grade of school. Odd, Ulrich, Jeremy and Aelita are now in tenth grade…and still at the mercy of Jim. He brings them to the computer room for a class in “cybersport.” While he’s fighting with the PC, unable to find the CD drive, he receives a violent electric shock that sends him flying backwards, sending the class into a fit of laughter…except for Aelita. She stares at her screen with a worried expression as they display familiar lines of code…

Yumi is now in eleventh grade…as is William.
Things haven’t changed there; William is still trying to charm Yumi, complimenting her hairstyle…and hindering Ulrich’s attempts at confessing.

With Odd’s encouragement, Ulrich tries several times throughout the day to confess to Yumi, but he never manages to, despite his best efforts.

Jeremy and Aelita are in disagreement. Aelita thinks she saw a trace of XANA during the events of that morning. Jeremy refuses to believe it. XANA is dead.
That’s when the school bell goes off, producing a terrible noise before exploding before everyone’s eyes. After a brief meeting, the heroes are in agreement: something is up.

Leaving William behind, they decide to go to Lyoko to check if anything is happening there and possibly get to the bottom of the mystery… Reopening the old tunnel in the park, they slip into the sewers and head for the old abandoned factory…their factory.

They go down to the Supercomputer room. With lumps in their throats, they find themselves thrown months back in time… Reunited in the very room where they turned off the machine months earlier. Ulrich is reticent but his apprehension is trumped by Aelita’s determination. Jeremy turns on the dreadful machine. The Network lights up…Lyoko rebuilds itself.

The heroes go up to the lab. Lyoko has suffered the effects of time during the last few months of being turned off. The Ice and Forest Sectors have disappeared. Still, the Superscan doesn’t detect any activated tower or attack from XANA. Aelita asks to go to Sector 5 so that she can be closer to her father…to the place where he died.
This idea divides the group. Odd can’t hide his enthusiasm at the idea of finally returning to Lyoko. Ulrich and Yumi are somewhat annoyed about it.

Odd and Aelita soon arrive in Sector 5. Odd reclaims his Overboard and rattles off a number of creative ideas, even going so far as to propose that they turn Lyoko into a virtual amusement park.

While Jeremy refuses this insane idea, Aelita heads into the Core Zone and reaches Sector 5’s tower, inactive.
Just as Jeremy is asking if the two friends want to come back to the real world, the Superscan emits a familiar beep: a tower has just been activated. Jeremy reels. The tower has just appeared in Sector 5; a second one in a different room to where Odd and Aelita currently are. They decide to go and deactivate it but three Megatanks bar their way.

A fight breaks out in the Core Zone. Odd and Aelita use their Overboard and wings respectively to escape to the room where the activated tower is. Odd destroys two of their enemies, but unfortunately falls victim to the third.

On Earth, Ulrich and Yumi are dressed in traditional martial art kimonos for a sparring session. Ulrich misses another opportunity to confess due to an untimely intervention by Jim on his way to check the fuse box.
The PE teacher once again falls victim to electrical phenomena. A clone appears at Kadic, materialising and taking the form of Jim and knocking him unconscious. On entering the gym, it grabs Ulrich, surprising him. It starts draining something from him, weakening him. Yumi intervenes, pushing “Jim” away and escaping with Ulrich, who now has blurry vision and trouble standing upright.

After leaving Kadic, Yumi receives a phone call from Jeremy and he explains the situation. They flee towards the sewers, the clone on their heels. Yumi is forced to abandon Ulrich in the sewer tunnel. She rushes to the factory while Odd, now back on Earth, leaves the factory to take care of Ulrich.

Aelita gets rid of the last Megatank, but a few Krabs immediately take its place, blocking her way to the tower. Yumi arrives as backup. The fight is more frantic this time as the situation on Earth becomes urgent.

Odd comes to Ulrich’s aid. But when the Jim clone arrives, Odd is no match for it. The same thing that happened to Ulrich happens to him, and the clone begins absorbing some unknown substance from him…

Yumi destroys the Krabs. The Guardian of Lyoko enters the activated tower and deactivates it in time to save her friends. Repeating an old habit, Jeremy launches the return to the past.

The debriefing is sombre: XANA has returned.
Jeremy discovered something through some error messages that appeared during the virtualisations. At the moment of its supposed destruction, XANA implanted source codes in Aelita, Odd, Yumi and probably Ulrich. These source codes are what the program wants to get back… They’re what the spectre was trying to absorb by grabbing Ulrich and Odd.

The second discovery is that XANA probably isn’t on Lyoko: its activity began before the Supercomputer was turned back on, so it must be elsewhere in the Network…probably on some sort of Replika. If XANA regains all its source codes, it will be able to spread throughout the Network yet again and take complete control over it.


The conclusion of all this? The Lyoko Warriors are back!

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